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Known For
Acting
Born
1969-03-15
Place of Birth
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Monica Dolan
Biography
Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier Award winning actor whose work spans television, film and stage. Monica was born in March 1969 into an Irish family and has a sister Gabrielle. She studied drama at the Guildhall School in London, graduating in 1991 and soon afterwards went into television. A supremely versatile character actress, she has tended to specialize in stunning portrayals of the darker side of life, as real-life stalker Maria Marchese in U Be Dead (2009), demure but deadly Miss Gilchrist in the superior Poirot adaptation Poirot: After the Funeral (2006) and, particularly, as serial killer Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult (2011) for which she, along with fellow Guildhall graduate Dominic West, deservedly received a BAFTA award.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties as Self (Narrator)
2024This Time Next Year as Connie
2024Mr Bates vs The Post Office as Jo Hamilton
2023Typist Artist Pirate King as Audrey Amiss
2023The Change as Carmel
2022A Woman Walks Into A Bank as Narrator
2022Empire of Light as Rosemary Bates
2022Sherwood as Ann Branson
2022My Name Is Leon as Maureen
2022The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe as Anne Darwin
2021Cyrano as Marie
2021The Dig as May Brown
2020Days of the Bagnold Summer as Sue
2020Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Lorna
2020Rialto as Claire
2019Official Secrets as Fiona Bygate
2019National Theatre Live: All About Eve as Karen Richards
2018Hang Ups as Alison Jones
2018A Very English Scandal as Marion Thorpe
2017Fern as Woman
2017Strike as Leonora Quine
2016The Witness for the Prosecution as Janet McIntyre
2016Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2015Eye in the Sky as Angela Northman
2015The Falling as Miss Martha Alvaro
2015The Casual Vacancy as Tess Wall
2015Wolf Hall as Alice More
2014Pride as Marion
2014W1A as Tracey Pritchard
2014Inside No. 9 as May
2013The Escape Artist as Eileen Morris
2013Out of Darkness
2013Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa as Angela
2013Kick-Ass 2 as Tommy's Mum
2013Complicit as Judith
2012Sightseers as Janice
2011Black Mirror as Janet McCardle
2011Black Mirror as CS Linda Grace
2011Death in Paradise as Patricia Lawrence
2011Meconium as Kel (voice)
2011DCI Banks as Maggie Forrest
2011Appropriate Adult as Rose West
2010Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge as Angela
2010The Arbor as Ann Hamilton
2010Excluded
2010Never Let Me Go as Nurse
2009Within the Whirlwind as Pitkowskaya
2009U Be Dead as Maria Marchese
2009Occupation as Nicky Swift
2009Occupation as Nicky Swift
2008King Lear as Regan
2007The History of Mr Polly
2005Wallis & Edward as Elizabeth
2005Guernsey as Claire
2003She Stoops to Conquer as Miss Kate Hardcastle
2002Tipping the Velvet as Alice Astley
1999Topsy-Turvy as Miss Barnes
1998The Gift as Jo
1997Midsomer Murders as Imogen Stroud
1996A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hermia
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
1971A Ghost Story for Christmas as Mrs. Dorman
—Book Club as Jane
—Once Removed as May
—The Lost Children of Tuam as Catherine Corless








